city calm down

The year is coming to a close and I’m sitting here looking back on another year of blogging; another year of so many great tunes.

It’s always a challenge to try and sum up your year in one playlist. Here’s my best attempt, with my favourite songs of 2015 (via Soundcloud, Spotify, Youtube and new streaming site Playmoss). In my playlist I feature the likes of Leon Bridges, Day Wave, Big Data, Jack Garratt, Steven. A Clark, and many more.

*Note: This is not meant to be a Top 50 list where #1 is my favourite song. I love them all the same, plus the songs had to go in some order.

It was a bit of a slower month for new music, but these “best of August” playlists came together quite nicely. Whether you prefer to listen via Soundcloud, Rdio or Spotify, I’ve got some brand new tunes featuring the return of Half Moon Run, GEMS and Saintseneca, new tunes from CHVRCHES and Foals plus a couple surprises in Good Field, Steven A. Clark and Zibra.

“Wandering” from Melbourne band City Calm Down, off their debut full-length album In A Restless House (out on November 6th via I OH YOU Records). The band shares some of the inspiration behind the clip.

“In the video for ‘Wandering’, we were trying to capture that awkward anxiety one feels when they believe they are being misunderstood and disrespected, which inevitably leads to palpable frustration if not resolved. We felt that the contrast of the young boy singing the song, which features Jack’s baritone vocal, would heighten that sense of unease and awkwardness and frustration expressed in the song’s lyrics. We were a bit unsure as to whether that contrast would work, but Casey (who played the part) delivered a pretty amazing performance and really, everything just hangs on his expression and the way he spits the words out.”

You take one day off and it just piles up. This track caught my ear today while trying to get 234 e-mails out of my inbox.

City Calm Down are a Melbourne four-piece who’s long-awaited debut album In A Restless House will be release on Sept 11th via I OH YOU Records. In the meantime, take in their blissed out single “Rabbit Run”. On repeat, all weekend folks.